Informational Reading in the LMC

1. Informational Reading in the LMC Sherry Jasper Lindsey Evans Denise Sales

2. Our PD session will let library media specialists … • gain a better understanding of informational reading • become familiar with resources and strategies for integrating informational reading into the their library program and instruction. • incorporate strategies to use text structures and text features with nonfiction texts

3. What is Informational Reading? • text whose primary purpose is to convey information about the natural and social world. • text that typically has characteristic features such as addressing whole classes of things in a timeless way. • text that comes in many different formats, including books, magazines, handouts, brochures, CD-ROMs, and the Internet. Information from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticprofessional/authors/pdfs/duke_sample_pages.pdf

4. Informational Reading is not… • text whose primary purpose is something other than to convey information about the natural and social world, such as telling about an individual's life, an event or series of events, or how to do something. • text that always has particular features; instead, features vary by text. • only books. Information from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticprofessional/authors/pdfs/duke_sample_pages.pdf

5. Informational Reading Standards Common Core Standards are divided into different sections. Let’s take a look at the standards for Informational Text. Also keep in mind the AASL standards and how they connect to Common Core. KCAS standards AASL standards

6. Teaching Informational Reading in the Library

7. Informational Reading Text Features Here is a primary example of teaching text features. RI.2.5 Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

8. Informational Reading Text Features Here is an upper elementary/intermediate example of teaching text features. • RI.4.7 Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.

9. Informational Reading Text Structures • Cause and Effect • Sequence • Problem/Solution • Description • Compare and Contrast

10. Teaching Text Structures http://home.roadrunner.com/~EXCELLENCE1/Text%20Structure%20Text%20Features.htm -wonderful resource with activities for nonfiction text features and text structures http://www.hoodriver.k12.or.us/cms/lib06/OR01000849/Centricity/Domain/873/LA_res_TxtStruc_ORS_Module%20copy.pdf -great information about text structures includes charts

11. Example of Text Structure Chart

12. 3-2-1 Strategy Students read a magazine article or nonfiction book independently and use the 3-2-1 strategy to comprehend what they read. Students will… • write about three things they discovered • two things they found interesting • one question they still have

13. Informational Reading Resources • Zoo You Later! Teaching examples to connect writing, research, and reading to a story. • http://www.pyramidreading.com/unit-4.phpWebsite with good handouts • http://www.nieconnects.com/ Newspaper in Education • http://wonderopolis.org/ Wonder of the Day is a fun info feature • http://sheg.stanford.edu/us Middle School resource • http://www.ohiorc.org/search/results/?txtSearchText=informational Website with lesson ideas • Tumble Books Elementary ebooks

14. Informational Reading Standards How do you teach Informational Reading in your library? Take a look at the standards and share.